Banned from Reddit: Electric Banaloo

Anti-free speech advocates celebrated when my subreddit, /r/NeovaginaDisasters, was banned yesterday. As we speak, male redditors are cheering as they revel in the misogynistic joy found in silencing women’s voices. There’s nothing better than making an uppity woman shut up, amirite? (Too bad I won’t stay silent!)

Anyway, as you’ve probably guessed, the subreddit ban was without justification – and so was my user account ban. Since people have asked what the circumstances were surrounding these bans, I thought I’d share. To summarize it quickly: my subreddit was banned without warning or explanation, and when I asked why, I was banned too. This highlights just how biased the Reddit admins actually are.

Of course, I’m sure that this won’t matter to our detractors. In fact, they probably get some kind of sick pleasure in knowing that we were banned without justification. It probably makes it better for them to know that we were kicked off solely for wrongthink and not for bad behavior. Nevertheless, I’ll share the story.

On Friday morning, I woke up to several private messages asking why my subreddit was banned. Of course, I had received no warning from the admins, nor did I even receive notification that the subreddit was banned.

I had never once received a complaint or a notification that we were breaking Reddit rules in any way. Male-dominated subreddits like /r/The_Donald or /r/AgainstHateSubreddits have been warned in such a manner. Apparently, the same courtesy is not extended toward women. I wonder why.

In any event, I sent in a request to the Reddit admins to ask why it had been banned and what could be done to unban it.

I wondered what response I would receive. I figured that it was a foregone conclusion that the subreddit would stay banned. The content never violated Reddit rules, so the admins could not point to any violating content.

That evening, I received my response – although it was not in the form that I expected. The Reddit admins provided no justification as to the subreddit ban, but rather, banned me in retaliation for even asking why.

VIOLENT CONTENT!

Yes, that’s right – I was banned for posting content that supposedly “encourages, glorifies, incites, or calls for violence or physical harm against an individual or a group of people.”

Absolute BS, but let’s follow that link and see what we find.

The so-called “violent content” was found in a comment that I had made in response to a photo of a TIM brandishing a firearm and encouraging trans women to arm themselves with guns in a vaguely threatening tone.

What was my response?

Yes, that’s my comment that supposedly was “glorifying violence.”

Think about that for a second. This trans person brandishes a gun. I say that the difference between them and being a murderer is them having the opportunity to do that. I was criticizing violence, not supporting it. There’s no way that a rational person could possibly read this comment as supporting violence.

Of course, I pointed this out to them in a ban appeal which has thus far gone ignored. I am sure that I will never receive a response to it.

It looks like they received my request regarding my subreddit ban, and then went hunting in my post history to find anything they could possibly use to justify a user account ban – even though my comment had nothing to do with glorifying violence, and that’s an objective fact.

Laughable, but to be expected. Clearly, they wanted to find any excuse for banning me. I assume that the admins realized that they could never give a clear reason for why they banned /r/NeovaginaDisasters, so the only thing they could do is ban my account. Otherwise, I’d keep asking questions – and we can’t have a woman asking questions, can we?

Typical behavior by the Reddit admins. They like to pretend that they’re neutral and that they handle all cases appropriately and in line with the community standards, but that couldn’t be further from the case.

I’m not too broken up about it, although I find it pitiful and transparently misogynistic on the part of Reddit staff. So far, this blog has received more hits in the past day that I’d receive at /r/NVD in any random week – and I haven’t posted anything yet. We already have a far greater reach than we did on Reddit, and best of all – there’s no way for the anti-free speech crowd to censor us at this point.

I’d like to remind everyone that you can submit posts using the link above. I’d be glad to receive posts and continue the great work we’ve been doing since April. I’m sure that many supposed “trans advocates” would prefer that the complications of SRS simply be swept under the rug. Unfortunately, that’s not going to happen.

Just remember – the truth sounds like hate to those who hate the truth.

47 Responses to Banned from Reddit: Electric Banaloo

I find this so ironic, you would go to this length just to show the world botched surgeries of a trans woman’s anatomy. If this were in reverse you would be have a fit and doing everything in your power to take it down.

GC are a bunch of cowards, I hope this site gets taken down and if charges can be pressed against you, it’s done.

Seeing as how the actual subreddit was visited and used by trans people thinking about surgery and detrans people, I think it’s helped to see the actual end products that aren’t in a surgeon’s portfolio. I would do the same if I was looking to get any cosmetic surgery, I wouldn’t just trust the portfolios.

Why does this need to be silenced when it provides the names of the doctors who produce poor results? Who does it serve to silence this? Not trans people, but the people who make sweet money off trans people.

How is a trans woman wanting to use their 2nd Amendment rights “violent”? I don’t agree with their kill terfs rhetoric but there is a difference between that and merely exercising their 2A rights. And your comment isn’t exactly a defence against violence either. I’m pro-free speech and I don’t think you should have been banned for that, but you brought it on yourself.

Your comment incites violence by framing it as “preventative” by calling an entire group of people murderers in the making. There’s no difference between this and racists who say the same about black people, hispanic immigrants, and arabic muslims.

Dude, who are you trying to fool with your ((( ))) bullshit? There’s no mods, and no admins besides the owner here. You don’t have pretend to be “against” these TERFs and spread your message. Like come on. 109 countries? You have to be an idiot to fall for that shit. No self respecting trans person is going to say that shit

Yay! Your subreddit was educational about the truth of trans surgeries.
It was also a nice place not be forced to take the high road when discussing a group who holds women in contempt and actively works against our rights and safety.

I was very disappointed by the replies to the GC post about the sub’s banning. Compare the amount of “poor mentally unwell babies”, “so mean“, “what about their privacy (despite posting on public forums)” on that post to the many “I couldn’t care less about pornsick dudes” posts.

As a woman, I am beyond done feeling sorry for idiot men of any kind whose lack of boundaries and fucked up ideas about women don’t end well for them.

It is obvious to any woman with a brain why your particular sub was handled by staff this way.

It’s not even a good *looking* site lmao. Also lmao electric “banaloo”? Most of what she’s saying reads like a 14 year old who doesn’t understand what free speech actually is is.Judging by how they moderated their subreddit, they’re either a 14 year old crypto-fascist, or a boomer who is stuck in 2nd-wave feminism, and is probably also a crypto-fascist.

Have you considered moving to a vBulletin type platform instead of a WordPress blog? It would make actual discussion and administrative tasks such as assigning user groups and permissions a lot more straightforward. Plus, a bulletin style board is much better suited for any actual discussion.

I love how this menopausal gendercritical ugly TERF already gave up on their – what do you want to call this amateuristic looking page? – site…
You have put so much of your time into obsessing over trans women’s genitalia and we don’t lose sleep over it. I’m post op and very happy with my neovagina. Do you really think that your scare mongering ” underbuilt” with scary stories from the mid 90s still touch someone? You would be surprised how impressed people are with successful srs surgeries nowadays. It becomes harder and harder to tell the difference between neovaginas and cisgender vaginas. Anyway, I don’t care about the opinions of a few TERFs with low self esteem. I have my vagina and no one is going to take it from me. Trans people will move on and we gain more and more acceptance every day to the point that the average straight cis male is opening his mind to the possibility of dating a post-op trans woman. So go have your five minutes of fun by browsing porn websites for pictures of neovaginas. Just remember that those people in those videos at least have self esteem and a sex life. That’s something you repressed hysterical feminists will never have.

Lol you’re mistaken if you think people don’t immediately know you’re a guy when they see you in person. Either they can tell by your extremely masculine features, or they can smell the shit that’s leaking into your inside out dick. Why you would advocate for other mentally ill people to mutilate their genitals is beyond me, but then again you are mentally ill, so it makes sense. I hope you’re able to woke up from your fantasy one day, maybe when your fake vagina falls off you’ll understand that it was never real and you were never, ever a woman. You’ll never change your chromosomes and you’ll never change your gender. I hope you are able to get help from a therapist or psychiatrist before you cause other people to mutilate their genitals too.

I love how their justification was so loose. They couldn’t even point to anything specifically in the subreddit as a reason for removal, they had to go digging in your post history and reframe a comment completely out of context. Anyone with a brain can see that you’re in the right.

I don’t know why you’re so surprised that you got banned. You’re so consumed by your hatred of trannies (and men in general) that you don’t even attempt to veil your bigotry any more. It’s your own fault for not being smart enough about it, as evidenced by the post that led to your account ban.

Your sub became less and less about discussing the horrors of SRS, and more and more about just shitting on so-called “TiMs.” So many of you GCers waste so much time and energy sperging about how awful and evil transwomen are, while doing jack shit to actually stop them from invading female athletic competitions and stealing other opportunities from women.

The time you spent wallowing in your victim complex by creating this joke of a website could’ve been used for so many more constructive things – both in regard to actually furthering the goals of radical feminism, or even just trying to improve your own life.